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Health for All Annual Review 2023–24

Health for All is a 33-year-old Leeds charity tackling health inequalities in deprived South Leeds communities, working with 11,000 people each year across services spanning breastfeeding support, children's activity, youth social action, learning disability, older people's wellbeing, food poverty, community transport, climate action and mental health. In 2023/24 it distributed £54,500 in Household Support Funding to 666 families, carried 29,855 passengers across 77,067 miles of community transport, supported 600 families weekly through six food pantries, and helped 1,446 families through Leeds Breastfeeding peer support. Six community and family centres serve 1,400+ people weekly. The charity's ethos — 'We did it ourselves, we did it together' — runs through all its work.

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About

Leeds Breastfeeding Peer Support and Bradford Better Start Breastfeeding; Better Together social prescribing (730 new to groups, 18 groups securing grants); ACE/Healthy Holidays children's sport and activity; Girls Together targeted groups; Green Futures youth climate action (200 young people, BBC Children in Need funded); The Bridge learning disability day service; Watsonia Cafe trainee placements; Enhance frail older people service; Career Connect employability programme; 6 community food pantries; Community Transport; Our Future Beeston climate project; 8 community and family centres; Being You mental health and suicide prevention; Care and Connect; Hongkongers integration project; Prerna Network for Sikh and Hindu elders (200+/week); Kushy Nannas Bangladeshi elders group Custom geography from upload: South Leeds, UK (Beeston, Belle Isle, Middleton, Holbeck, Cottingley, Allerton Bywater)

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 11,000 people helped each year; 2,190 engaged through Better Together; 10,300 children engaged through sport and Healthy Holidays activities
Key Metric 2 29,855 passengers carried across 3,790 return journeys and 77,067 miles by community transport; 600 families supported weekly through 6 community food pantries; £54,500 Household Support Fund distributed to 666 families
Key Metric 3 1,259 mums helped by breastfeeding peer supporters across 459 group sessions; 1,446 families supported through Leeds Breastfeeding; 2,948 Better Start Bradford referrals and 1,125 postnatal ward visits

Key Outcomes

  • 18 small groups securing grants through Better Together; 730 new people joining groups; Cottingley Free Shop rehomed 50+ large furniture items and 1,500+ clothing items in its first year — started entirely from community initiative
  • 6 community centres and family centres serving 1,421+ people weekly across 62 hosted groups; Cottingley Community Centre, Vicars Court and partnership centres progressing towards long-term community ownership
  • 34 Green Futures youth social action members; 5 community eco visits; 8 community events and campaigns; 45 sports coaches; 55 schools supported; Household Support Fund distributed directly and rapidly to most in need

Geography

Yorkshire and the Humber

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
Key Metric 2
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
Key Metric 3
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 3
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022